Pantheon and Obelisk in Piazza Della Rotonda, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
This image shows the Pantheon and Obelisk in Piazza Della Rotonda, Rome, Lazio, Italy. The Pantheon was commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus as a temple to all the gods of ancient Rome, and rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian about 126 AD. The building is circular with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda, which is under a coffered concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. The Obelisk in the image was originally one of a pair at the Temple of Ra in Heliopolis, the other being the now much shorter Matteiano. Moved to the Temple of Isis near Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Found in 1373 near San Macuto and erected east of Santa Maria in Aracoeli on the Capitoline. Moved to the front of the Pantheon by Pope Clement XI in 1711 over a fountain by Filippo Barigioni.
Size: 5184px × 3456px
Location: Piazza Della Rotonda, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Photo credit: © Stuart Robertson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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